The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 38
As soon as the king awoke next morning he ran to the window, and there across the plain he beheld the palace.
Who acts: king · What happens: awake, run, behold · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 ran | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 awoke | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 awoke | nsubj |
| 6 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | advcl |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 morning | amod |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 awoke | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 window | det |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 there | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 there | cc |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 ran | parataxis |
| 17 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 plain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plain | det |
| 19 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 there | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beheld | nsubj |
| 21 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 plain | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beheld | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the king | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | king | to the window result; soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result | ||||
| 3 | behold | past | king | the palace | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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